Second Life

After spending quite a bit of time this afternoon waiting for various Youtube videos of SL to load, I decided not to join up to SL even though it is free. I was quite fascinated by the Wikipedia article - it is so long and involved!

SL could be useful for distance education and I would like to see it in operation properly and get some feedback from students actually involved. Kathryn Greenhill said it had been suggested at Murdoch Uni that it may be useful for students with disabilities although you do wonder how say, blind and partially sighted people may cope.

I guess that for people who are keep game players, SL would be a natural progession but I have never been that keen on this sort of activity. A while ago, I spoke to the member of staff I thought was most likely to be a SL devotee and she said that while she had tried it out, she was much more interested in her first life.

One of the best things about uni is the interaction and another is the social life which for me is better done with 'real people'.